{"id":1201280,"date":"2022-09-09T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/sanitise-forex-market\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:37:47","slug":"sanitise-forex-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/sanitise-forex-market\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sanitise Forex Market\u2019 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr Dasmon Alex Akpabli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VICE PRESIDENT of the Forex Bureaus Association of Ghana, has appealed to Bank of Ghana to deal with the activities of \u2018Black market\u2019 operators who pose a threat to their operations in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, activities by the \u2018Black market\u2019 operators adversely affects the operations of the foreign exchange market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge we are facing is that we have a parallel market. When someone comes to you with all these requirements, some Ghanaians are not ready to work with us and due to the competition with the \u2018black market\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Bank of Ghana has to discuss such matters facing the association\u2019s members especially how best it can collaborate with them to clamp down their activities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <em>Joy News<\/em>, he said the the association supports the move by BoG to clamp down on the activities of unlicensed forex bureaux.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said they had also met members of their association to desist from engaging in any acts that have the tendency lead to further depreciation of the Cedi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have met our members and have had a fruitful discussion with them. They are now aware that it\u2019s a regulated association, hence the need to comply with the rules and regulations,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana recently hinted of plans to close down forex bureaus operators who fail to comply with foreign exchange rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Ebenezer K. Amponsah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Dasmon Alex Akpabli VICE PRESIDENT of the Forex Bureaus Association of Ghana, has appealed to Bank of Ghana to deal with the activities of \u2018Black market\u2019 operators who pose a threat to their operations in recent times. According to him, activities by the \u2018Black market\u2019 operators adversely affects the operations of the foreign exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6029,446,5153],"class_list":["post-1201280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-forex","tag-market","tag-sanitise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}